hopefulness vs hope

hopefulness and hope both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hopefulness	Yes	No	No	No
hope	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, hope is a hypernym of hopefulness; that is, hope is a word with a broader meaning than hopefulness:

hopefulness (noun)	hope (noun)
the feeling you have when you have hope	one of the three Christian virtues
full of hope	grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
	the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
	a specific instance of feeling hopeful
	someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

hopefulness (verb)	hope (verb)
	intend with some possibility of fulfilment
	be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
	expect and wish